• President of Lithuania expects Gazprom to compensate for damage to consumers

    Gazprom should compensate for the damage caused to consumers because of the opaque gas trade, said Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite.

    At a meeting with Vice President of the European Commission Maros Sefcovic, who is responsible for the energy union, Dalia Grybauskaite stressed that in the fight against Gazprom's “opaque monopoly” in the European gas market, “not symbolic steps, but real solutions are needed,” reported news agency Delfi.

    “There should not be differences in the EU in gas …

  • Deputy Prime Minister: Moldova is ready for dialogue with Transnistria

    The Moldovan authorities are in favor of intensifying the dialogue with unrecognized Transnistria within the framework of existing negotiating platforms.

    Ukrinform reports that the Deputy Prime Minister of Moldova, Gheorghe Balan, stated this during a meeting in Chisinau with the Ambassador-at-Large of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Sergey Gubarev.

    "The authorities of the Republic of Moldova are open to intensifying the dialogue within all existing negotiating …

  • Georgian president asks Lithuania for support at NATO summit

    Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili asked Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė for support in bringing up matters important to Tbilisi at the NATO summit which will take place this week in Brussels, Delfi reported.The two national leaders discussed the matter over the telephone.

    “The conversation took place ahead of the NATO summit which will take place in Brussels on May 25. President G. Margvelashvili asked the Lithuanian president for support in bringing up matters important to …

  • Pentagon confirms its intention to deploy anti-ballistic missile system in Poland

    The US has not renounced its intention to deploy an anti-ballistic missile (ABM) defense system in the Polish Redzikowo locality, announced Gary Pennett, director of operations for the US Defense Ministry’s Missile Defense Agency, as reported by TASS on Wednesday, May 24.

    The American military is planning to deploy an Aegis Ashore Ballistic Missile Defense System (Aegis BMD) in Poland. As Pennett told reporters in the briefing dedicated to the US Missile Defense Agency’s draft budget, the …

  • President of Philippines asks Putin for weapons

    President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte said at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin that his country needs modern weapons and will ask for help from the Russian Federation, RIA Novosti reported.

    Duterte also said that he had come to Moscow to enlist the support of Russia.

    “Our country needs modern weapons. We had ordered certain things from the U.S., but now the situation is not going very smoothly. And in order to fight the Islamic State, with their many units and factions, …